Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: What Word Mispronounced Irritates You?

Episode Date: June 22, 2021

Kia Ora! On today's show we discussed the word that annoys the heck out of you when it's not pronounced correctly. Aks (instead of ask), expresso, somethink, and maaaaaany more. Some people got riled up! We also received a message from Fran Drescher, who you may know as the nanny from The Nanny, ahead of our 90s themed show on Friday. Finally, we caught up with a Palaeontologist and asked him a bunch of questions from some kids... like, what is a palaeontologist? (Hint, it's someone who studies fossils). Enjoy the poddy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Looking forward to our 90s show on Friday. We're prepping up for that. Yeah, it should be a lot of fun. We could probably do a 90s week. There's so many great songs, so much nostalgia when you start looking through lists. Yeah, you've just been looking at all the songs now. I know, and there's things you're like, oh, we should play that song. And then I get to another and go, oh, we should play that song.

Ironically, he's been looking at the song of the greatest 90s songs to play from More FM's greatest 90s 500 countdown. That was great. It was a heck of a list so thank you very much that was a really good 500 songs and they had all the bangers around there actually hold there we'll get the music ready and we can go through them what are some of these songs okay um you'll start from 500 yeah okay we'll start details for a details show yeah now we'll go through that put a list um enrique iglesias, number 500. Enrique, let's... Yeah, Balamos.

What one? Balamos. Oh, Balamos. I don't think I've ever heard Balamos. You would have been at The Rock at the time, wouldn't you? This is a big song. Enrique Iglesias, controversially, he campaigns for men with less than sizable... He does, he does.

Yeah. I love his honesty. Yeah, he's like, I'm proudly... Yeah, listen, I'm not hung. I'm hung like... I'm not hung like a horse, more hung like a mouse, and that's my thing.

An odd thing to campaign for or become the face of. No, well, good on you. But there's not much... Either way, you can't do anything about it. Like, what does you. But there's not much, either way you can't do anything about it. Like, what does he want? Does he want sympathy?

Money? Some honesty? It's good to get it out there, because a lot of people, you know, it's like, good on you, mate. But I just don't know what the drive is.

Well, I think it's honestly, it's like, the more people that talk about one thing, the more other people feel comfortable. So say you're not alone.

So people like me can go, hey, cool, I'm not alone. Well, I already signed up for it. I'm a paying member. I'm not alone. Well, I already signed up for it. I'm a paying member. I'm not alone. And he's an international pop star.

And it's great that he's talking about this sort of thing. So do you donate? Do you wear a t-shirt? What do you do? Are you like Peter? No, we don't. It's not like a group or anything like that. It's just, I think,

the more people that can say, hey, it's some of the things you may see. You know, it's not all, we're not all like that. You know, it's an unrealistic expectation. It's like social media. Sometimes you look at people's social media and you're like, oh, their lives are perfect. Well, he's someone that's... Sometimes you look at Orlando Bloom on a paddleboard and you go, hey, we're not all like that.

Exactly. I couldn't steer a paddleboard through the ocean with it. No. Okay, so that was number 500. I'm going to skip to the top five now because obviously 500 to one is going to take a while. Mbop, Hanson. Great song.

Great song. Oh, yeah, Hanson and Mbop. I remember that one. These kids had hardly hit puberty, hadn't they? Oh, yeah. Interviewed them in Buffalo. They were really nice guys, really wonderful guys. Tell me what Buffalo was like.

Buffalo was... It's very close to Canada, really wonderful guys. Tell me what Buffalo was like. Buffalo was... It's very close to Canada, I remember. It was very close to the border. It sounds bleak. Yeah. See, it was cold. It was cold at the time, too. So, probably makes things seem a little bit more, you know.

You didn't see bluff of Buffalo in his prime. Okay, so Hanson, yeah. Number four, Coolio, Gangster's Paradise. Oh, yeah. That was... That was such a big song. From the movie Dangerous Minds, I think it was. Michelle Pfeiffer.

Yeah. She's a teacher heading to a class, a school, probably Lower Decile School. Yeah. And really wanting to change it. No, she did. Did she make a change? I think she did. I hope she did. I think she made a change.

Then we had Michael Jackson, Black or White. It was number three on the list. So that song's from 1991. Oh, really? Yeah. Macaulay Culkin in this? Yes. You've seen the video.

It's like, turn it down, shut up, you know? Like, he was playing it up. Dad, over here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think John Goodman from memory might have been the other one who was his dad.

MC Hammer, you can't touch this, at number two? Oh, I did like that. You know, I got my mum to make me some MC Hammer pants back in the day. Oh yeah, they were very cool. You can't touch this. I don't know what he was referring to. No. Maybe it was our little Enrique's.

Oh, what a jam. And the final one on More FM's Top 500 countdown. Producer Huffreys coming in, he's like, what are you doing? Well, if you want to know what we're doing, we're counting down More FM's top 500 countdown. Producer Huffreys coming in, he's like, what are you doing? Well, if you want to know what we're doing, we're counting down More FM's top 500. Gary approved this.

I was just saying, it's a great list. It's a great list, and they've got some great information. A good list is a good list no matter where it comes from. Oh, yeah, it's a great list. And at number one of their top songs, of top 500 songs of the 90s, Backstreet Boys from 97, Everybody.

Oh, was that? Yeah. That was the number one. Okay, so I'll just find that one. There we go. Yeah, great. That's a solid list, Gary McCormick. Yeah, I know.

And going through that list, there are so many songs. You're like, oh, I remember Hootie and the Bluefoot. Oh, I remember, you know. There's so many. He's got Mark Morrison, Return of the Mac. Yeah, so there you go. It's definitely we'll put it up

on the hit stock did Gary's favourite from UB40 make the list what's that on Red Weird Wine yeah UB40 is in there

actually UB40 I saw that before actually so they covered the bases I'll Be Your Baby Tonight at number 427

it's UB40 and Robert Palmer UB40's 427. It's UB40 and Robert Palmer. UB40's in four times. Higher ground, UB40. Yeah, so there we go. I like this one. Marky Mark Wahlberg. Yeah.

You feel it, girl? Probably not, because I'm on a recant glaciers. This is Marky Mark, the actor, Mark Wahlberg. We had a conversation with Max, Millennial Max, this morning. He's like,

what's going on? Good vibrations. Come on, come on. Yeah, I'm looking forward to our 90s show. It's going to be a lot of fun

and we reflect on that today on the podcast, so enjoy that. Now, Jono, you've caused my family a bit of grief many times over the

last decade just countless countless scars i've left on your fano but i just haven't been invited over in a while for good reason uh but we were talking the other day about someone else's dog and then it got into this got into the subject of dogs and you started talking about my dog bow and you besmirched the good name of Bo, my dog, with this. You've had some incidents with your dog out, not biting or killing things, Ben, but a prolific humper. Oh, my God. Just anything. His humping days are behind him, though, yeah.

That's good. Are they? Yeah, well, as far as I know. Are your humping days even behind you? Well, I don't know if I just send him to doggy daycare, so I don't know what goes on there, though. So after that played on the radio my wife amanda was going to her place of work and she had a lot of people come up to her that

morning go oh is your dog a bit of a yeah like that sort of dog oh my dog has had this sort of thing happen before he's like well no no he's not doing that he's not doing that anymore he's not oh have i but a lot of people felt like she was a safe person to come to talk to. My ones are like whispering, like an addiction group. She's like, thanks, you go and thank Jono for that. And then so I went home and... And you got... Well, yeah, because we had a conversation about it. She's like, thanks a lot.

Thanks to Jono. He went in there and had all these people coming up and saying, oh, yes, your dog, a bit of a humper. It's one of those ones that you would whisper, though, isn't it, yeah yeah she's because my dog is yeah it'd be good to kind of talk about this they should meet it like the mount albert community hall on tuesday nights humpers anonymous but then we had a moment we were talking about it at home my wife amanda and the uh my two kids were there as well our kids were there as well and then as we're having this conversation about the dog indy my youngest going, what's humping?

And you know when you hear it and you're like, oh, I don't have an answer for that right now. I've just got to ignore that and just carry on the conversation. But then she kept going. That's the good thing about kids. You can kind of just ignore them when you want, can't you? I'll just pretend I haven't heard that. But then she goes, what's humping again? Yeah, they start to get persistent.

And then kept going with the same line of question over and over and over again the more you ignore me the more i'm gonna keep asking the more she keeps saying the word that i didn't want to keep saying over and over again but i don't really know a way to describe it was kind of like when the dog i don't know you should have got both hey both come on here show us he's twerking harder than a cardi b B video, that dog. Wait, no, it's his days apart. No, he's no more. He's not doing it anymore.

That Black Eyed Peas song, My Hubs. Did you actually know? Fun fact. Written about it. The dog. Ben's dog, Bo. So you've caused the family a lot of grief. Well, can I apologise to Bo's character? I've put a stain on his public image now, haven't I?

Yeah. It's a weird thing, the dogs, when they do, you know, like sometimes... There's no moral compass when it comes to that. No, no. Any location, any time, anyone, almost anything as well. It's like, what are you doing to the TV remote?

Why is this? Why is this fair game? Yeah. No one's asking any questions of the dogs. Yeah. But thankfully I've shone a light upon it. Yeah, so you're saying. But you know, in you bringing this up again, more people are now going to go and whisper.

Whisper to Amanda at her place of work today. And apologies if more kids are asking the same question that my daughter was asking. Oh, did you just realise that now? Yeah, I did. Oh, yeah. Coming Friday. I'm the king of the world.

John O'Byrne's That 90s Show. Excellent. Was that who? Scooby Doo, I think, maybe, was it? We're doing a 90s show, taking it back to when the hits first started in the early 90s. So celebrating the 90s and looking back, feeling nostalgic. And this morning

we got a message come through from Fran Drescher. Now Fran Drescher was the nanny, the hit sitcom, what a show, I mean it was such a great show, we used to watch it all the time, and she sent us this message. Hi Jono, I'm Dan, it's me Fran Drescher, I hear you're having a fabulous 90s party. Am I invited? I hope you guys have the best time and just enjoy yourself. And if you need anyone to take care of the kids, do you need a nanny?

Be well, take care. Much love to you both. Thank you, Fran Drescher. I didn't actually send the invite out to Fran either. That was my bad. I was meant to. I know how she's awkwardly sinister. Anyway, it's always good to hear from a fan.

I don't know. Another request that's come through for the 90s show is another iconic TV show was Face the Music back in the early 90s, hosted by Simon Barnett. Yes, it's time to Face the Music. And here's the star of the show, Simon Barnett. So we thought, can get simon to join us on friday we've got a bit of a plan and he joins us right now simon so good to talk to you how you doing jono and ben legends of media how are you fellas i'm glad you got my email then i was reading it off an autocue legends of'll have it die hard. Legends of media.

It naturally rolled off the tongue too, that's what I like about it. It didn't seem forced. Now Simon, lovely to have you on, and I'm sure there's things like this which make you realise where you are in your life stage. I know when Ben sometimes gets 19-year-olds wasted, it's a 660 going, you were part of my childhood, this really ages you up. But, Riff, you were my childhood in the 90s on television. I know. It's real scary, this, because, honestly,

I have so many people come up to me all the time. And don't say that to be boastful, but they come up and they go, and they look 1,000. And they say to me, oh, we used to watch you on the television. We loved those movies. And I'm looking at them going, holy crap, I must be old now. Such an iconic time. And you were all over the TV screens.

What now? In the early 90s, there was Clash of the Codes and also Face the Music, some of the biggest shows on TV. And Wheel of Fortune. Hey, don't sell me. Sorry. Oh, that was later, mate. That was later.

We'll get to that. We're going to go through your whole IMDb database. Those ads for houses that are on TV at the moment. We'll get to that. I don't think there's a presenter in this country that's been fired for more TV shows than me. I'll tell you a very quick and very boring story. At the Film and Television Awards, so it must have been in the 90s,

back in the day it was a big, big affair. Red been in the 90s, and it was, back in the day, it was a big, big affair, you know, red carpet, a big theatre, and it was all, like, fancy pants. And I won the award for the TV Guide, you know, whatever best presenter in the country voted by the people. So, and I, literally, my speech was, gee,

I hope this means that next week the show doesn't get cancelled. It was Face Music. Next week, the show got cancelled. It was more like a parting gift. I think it was. They must have known something, eh? Now, Simon, your fashion. We've been looking back at some old clips.

Your fashion was, jeez, you were the forefront of fashion through the 90s. A lot of frosted, blonde, bleached tips on your hair. Yeah. Thanks for reminding me. A lot of frosted, blonde, bleached tips on your hair. Yeah. It actually reminded me, Duran Duran was massive, and I just idolised Simon the Bond back in the day, so I wanted that look. And then the big hoop earring came in, the short, short. Talk about a cluster.

Some of those old images of what now, people will send me things, and I'm like, what was going on with those pants? I remember you did have a big hoop earring, didn't you? Ben Boyce tried to get an earring, then his dad said you look like a pirate. He took it back to Pascoe's, the jeweller, to get our money back. Now, Simon, we actually have an ulterior motive

for this phone call. I want to borrow some money. Well, there's two ulterior motives. One's on here, one's off here. Okay, good. Hang on, I've put that stash of pee away, he doesn two ulterior motives. One's on here, one's off here. Okay, good. Hang on, I've put that stash of pee away, he doesn't want it yet. Would you be able to join us on Friday? We're going back to where the hits started in the early 90s.

Would you be able to join us on Friday for a special one-off return of Face the Music, hosted by Simon Barnett? Well, let me check my calendar. Yep, I'll be there. What time? Second question. I've seen a lovely house I'd like to buy. Need a little bit of extra for the deposit.

It's yours, mate. It's yours. Oh, thank you very much. What a guy. Simon Barnett. Simon. It's so good to talk to you. We can't wait to join you on Friday for our special 90s show.

Look, we'll do it. Just before we go, genuinely, I'm not being a sick of fan. You guys are brilliant at what you do, so it's a pleasure to talk with you. The same applies to you. Do we listen to your show a lot on ZB? We do. Loving it. Oh, do you?

All thanks. All thanks. Simon Barnett, he's joining us on Friday for our special 90s show. Can't wait for that Producer Juliet I saw you fluttering around on your computer Earlier And you actually raised a really interesting question

And it's about words And the way they're pronounced Yeah I saw this on Facebook And it was so interesting because so many popped up for me. What word mispronounced drives you crazy? When you know the true pronunciation of a word, but you hear someone else say it, and they're not saying it correctly.

One for me is if you're talking about espresso martinis or something, and someone says expresso, like you're expressing yourself or something. But it's not espresso. Being a New Zealander, you're not going to correct them. You're just going to quietly fume inside. Yeah, you don't say anything. But you're like, ooh, I could really, really want to tell them.

I get the same one too, and my mum's guilty for it all of the time. Texteds. John Key, Prime Minister John Key always used to say, I got a texted from the Australian. No, he didn't texted you. If you had texted him in the past, then you could have said texted. Yeah. It's just, I got a text.

I got a text from someone. Or I sent some texts if there were multiple. Yeah, I can see how that works. Where do texteds come from? Texted, yeah. That's a word. I get annoyed with people, and they often do it in sport, when they say, they kind of put a plural on someone.

So they'll say, oh, the Bowdoin Barretts of this world. And it's like, well, there's only one Bowdoin Barrett that plays rugby in the All Blacks. You're only talking about one person. You're not talking about the Bowdoin Barretts. Or maybe they're thinking of the feelings of the other people named Bowdoin Barrett and going, well, maybe they're successful in their chosen field.

Yeah, well, true. He's an IT expert. But that kind of annoys me. The Bowdoin Barretts. For some reason, they'll do that or something, yeah. And you don't like it when acronyms double down and then mention the last word again as well. The ASB Bank, Auckland Savings Bank Bank. Yeah.

Taranaki Savings Bank Bank, you know, TSP Bank. You know, it's like we've already said TSP. We need to put bank on the end of it. Yeah, it should be AS Bank. AS, yeah. TSP Bank. Yeah. Or the ATM machine.

It's the doubling down on machine as well I'm sure we say the ATM machine You've said it before I've heard you say it What does AT stand for? Automatic Transaction Machine Money So it's the ATM for two M's

Yeah, the double down on the M's True Also another one that annoys me is You know the word mischievous When people say mischievous. Mischievous, they kind of shorten it out, shorten it down. Okay, so this is what we want to get out on 0800 THE HITS, 4487. What is the one word that, when mispronounced, just irritates you?

Yeah. You know, and if we had done this in the middle of lockdown last year, this would have been a trivial topic. Not now. Not now. We can take it with the seriousness it deserves. I would always one up my dad for it because I'd just say, oh, we're going down to such and such.

You know, we might be going, but I'm not thinking where it is location-wise. Geographically, yeah. And he'd be like, up! You're going up! You're like, oh, sorry, yes, you're right. Technically it is. But you're just like, oh, we're going down to Whangarei. And we're like, that's up! You're going up to Whangarei. Oh, technically, it depends on where in the world you are yeah but he would

always base it on where I was right now it was true it was true but I said stop interrupting my story mate for that yeah and I need to make an apology to a public apology I've let down the team of five million we're talking about ATM machine which is one thing that irritates you is the doubling up of the atm machine machine uh and you asked me what was it standing for i thought i said automatic transaction machine yeah and i agree with that uh thank you for agreeing yeah let me see who's wrong uh automatic teller machine oh just to uh oh yeah that makes sense yeah i also stand corrected on the mischievous thing i thought it was mischievous but someone tells me it's actually mischief because you get

into mischief you don't get into mischief, you don't get into mischief. Oh, we're learning a lot today. You're listening to the show that's 75% correct. We come back and say we were wrong. I tell you what, looking at the text machine on 4487, mispronounced words that irritate you, there are

a lot of anal people out there in Aotearoa, and we're going to go to one of them now. Gary, you're on from Auckland. Yeah, guys. Debut. Do you not like when people say debut? It drives me wild.

Yeah, it's wrong. It's just wrong on so many levels. Grinds my gears. The word debut. Debut. Oh, when people say debut, and my gears. The word debut. Debut. Oh, when people say debut, it has to be debut. Oh, debut.

I see. Debut. Oh, gotcha. Yeah, no, I understand. Making that debut. I understand, sorry. Yeah, no, good on you, Gary. That's a debut.

Is it good? Debut for the All Blacks. Yeah. A lot of texts for this next one. Now, Dan from Christchurch, welcome. This, I would have to say, is the most popular mispronounced word that most people are irritated by. What is it for you, Dan? When people say something instead of something.

Oh, something. It's winning. But then you wonder also, because people in England, they're singing and all that, so they have that weird sort of, yeah. Something. Something, yeah. Yeah think. Some think. Yeah, that's great. It's coming through in leaps and bounds on 4487. Let's go to Sarah, shall we, from New Plymouth.

What's irritating you today, Sarah? Oh my goodness. You guys are grinding my gears this morning. Oh, what have we done? Just a mispronunciation. You're killing me. Oh God, okay. What have we got? Unload on us, Sarah. Just a mispronunciation You're killing me Oh god okay Unload on us Sarah

Let us not grind your gears anymore Statistics Statistics Statistics Statistics Statistics Statistics She can't even say it

Statistics Everybody calm down And what is everyone saying? Put your tongue She can't even say it. She can't even say it. She's like, she's... It's statistics. Everybody calm down. And what is everyone saying? Put your tongue and teeth together and get the teeth okay. You'll be fine. Get the teeth. So say the teeth in statistics. Is that what you're saying?

There's also lots of other ones. Like I also like card shark. But it's card shark. Or on tenderhooks, and it's actually tenterhooks. Can I just say, Sarah, statistics and teddyhooks and card sharks

are three words or sayings that I've never heard mispronounced. You know, it's so funny because it's like, yeah, I totally don't get or ask. So card sharp is what it was. You're right.

It's what technically it was. It's not a card shark, but it's now changed to card shark. Yeah. So card sharp. That's something I didn't know. Yeah. Very good. Yeah.

Honestly. And listen, Sarah, we've only got till nine o'clock, and I feel like we could keep going until midday with these mispronounced words with you. Beautiful call. Thank you. We'll get Lou on from Rotorua. Welcome. Hello.

Good to have you on. Mispronounced words, what's annoying you, Lou? Well, I have three. So my first one is the word ask. Oh, when people go ask. Here in Rotorua, they pronounce it with an A-K-S. Axe. Axe.

Yeah, I've heard that used before, yes. Yeah, the second one is spaghetti is most often said biscetti. As a kid, yeah, my daughter uses Newseley bars as well. And the word then is pronounced with a D, den. Den. Yeah. So I actually think it's, from what I'm hearing, is there's different dialects all over the country.

Yeah, that's right. It's New Zealand. It's New Zealand. Yes, it's a beautiful language. Thank you. It's up there with the Italian. Romantic, sexy on many levels. From New Zealand.

It's not getting better. It is, guys. Good on you, Lou. Appreciate it. And we'll go to Karen from Gisborne. Not unlike a Karen to complain, but let's get her on. Oh, hey. Good morning.

Hey, how you doing, Karen? How's things? Good, good. What's irritating you, Karen, when words are mispronounced? The word use. Oh, use. Yeah, people say use, guys. Oh, use.

Yeah, gotcha. I always say use belong in the paddock. Use. Oh, use. Yeah, gotcha. I always say, use belong in the paddock. Use. Oh, the sheep. Yeah. There you go. And that'll be a fun thing to say back to someone when they've mentioned it as well, because it takes them a couple of seconds to get what you're actually saying.

We do. We're like, oh. Yeah. Hey, thanks, Karen. Cheers. Thank you. Yeah. Listen, we could honestly keep doing this for another entire show.

Maybe we'll come back another day and do this again, eh? Yeah. It's like therapy for people, isn't it? People get it off their chest. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Two dads just trying to fill some airtime. Some might say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some airtime for us.

That is the main thing. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. We've got a paleontologist joining us here right now, head of a really awesome exhibition that's coming to Auckland Museum very shortly, Dr Espen Knutson. Thanks for having us. Good morning. Good morning.

How are you going? Now, you are doing really well, thank you. You're the Senior Curator of Paleontology at the Queensland Museum Network. I mean, how do you squeeze that onto a business card or even the bottom of your emails? Yeah, it's a double-page one. What always amazes me too, and I think, John, we've talked about this before,

is you guys put together like a dinosaur from bones and stuff. How do we know that that was how the dinosaurs went? Or looked? Yeah. Yeah, well, luckily, sometimes we find

more complete animals. Most of the time, it's just fragments that are scattered around. But sometimes we find complete animals, all everything from head to tail with every little detail preserved even soft tissues sometimes so from these more complete specimens we can sort of reconstruct what the missing parts of these more or less

complete ones because i'm even like how do you know what color the t-rex was for example yeah we don't we don't know the colors of t-Rex. We do know some things about colours from different dinosaurs, but mostly it's about what sort of shades they had, whether they were dark on the top and light on the bottom. No, it's always like, you know, the T-Rex has had some bad branding over the years in terms of its anger issues. It might have been like, hey, guys,

it might have been like Barney the dinosaur, friendliest dinosaur in the game, but we don't know. Yeah, well, it might even have been Fluffy. You have close relatives of T-Rex from China that were almost just as big and actually I presume with some feather structures on them. Oh, really? They were fluffy?

It's likely that T-Rex might have had some sort of feathers on it as well. Oh, we've got Dr. Knudsen with us. He's helped put together an exhibition. It's going to be at the Auckland Museum. It looks awesome. It's called Sea Monsters, about prehistoric ocean predators. Now, we've got some kids to ask you some questions from around New Zealand, and we want to put some of these questions to you now, if that's okay.

Excellent. You're a paleontologist, and my question is, can you spell paleontologist? Oh, that's a tricky one. Yeah, it is. So there's two ways of spelling it, depending on whether you're from Australia or America. Oh, really? So if you're from Australia, New Zealand or England,

you spell it P-A-L-A-T-O-N-T-O-L-O-G-I-S-T. Well done. The only difference is if you're from America, you just take away the A after the L, so it's just paleontology. Oh, wow. Listen, you're doing better than me. I can't even spell radio.

You're working radio. Next question from little Tessa. Next, Tessa, here's her question. How many years did they spend when they were in their olden days? How many years did they spend when they were in their olden days? Now, over to you. Yeah, well, we can interpret that in a couple of different ways. So, for instance, we can think about how old, perhaps, the dinosaurs were.

And we know that some of them probably lived to 30, 40 years old. Oh, geez, there you go. You're answering these questions beautifully. I know. We've got a question now from Francesca. Let's choose one of her questions. I want to know how dinosaurs even exist. How do they even exist?

That's a big one. Don't lie. You're sort of saying it accusingly as well. Yeah, you're making it up. We know dinosaurs exist because we can go out and find their fossils. And I had a question like that from another person not long ago, and I suggested that if you would like to see these things

for yourself in a field, then it's a good idea to contact your local museum, and sometimes they have volunteer programs and you can come out in the field with them and find fossils of whatever's locally preserved in the rocks around where you live. Well, they're a nice one, palming Francesca off to your local museum. You dodged that one beautifully.

I see what you did there. We've got two more for you. Well, this one's from Sienna. What do you get if you cross a pig with a dinosaur? Jurassic pork. Jurassic pork is more of a joke than a question. That's a very good one. Do you have a favourite dinosaur joke?

Well, there's one where two dinosaurs walked into a bar and the first one said, Sorry, I thought you saw that. The bar. I was sorry, I was thinking of that did you think you saw us joke. Some silence there from us just as we let that one settle in.

And it was a goodie. And finally from Seb, a final question right now. A Velociraptor is the most smartest and intelligent dinosaur in the world. It can stand on two feet and four feet, and it can swim very fast. Okay, more of a fact of the question, I guess. Yeah, that's a very good comment. And there's also something interesting when it comes to dinosaurs and birds

because there was a study a couple of years ago that showed that the density of neurons of other brain cells in bird brains, so many bird brains, are actually twice as many as a terribly sized primate brain. So if you have a tiny little bird brain, it's equivalent of a double-sized primate brain, so a monkey or ape brain. Now, I have a question for you. So that's why... Sorry, I was going to go...

The plotline to Jurassic Park, where they extracted some dinosaur DNA from a fossilised mosquito, then created this wild theme park. And did it five times or something. Yeah, they really did not learn... They did not learn from their mistakes, Dr Espen. Is that, with scientific

advancements, is that actually possible? Well, I think the oldest DNA we've managed to extract so far is about 1 million years old. So you've got to go back 66 million years to get to any of the non-mabian dinosaurs or non-bird dinosaurs

as we call them. So it's still got a long way to go and it's probably very unlikely to find them. So it's still got a long way to go, and it's probably very unlikely they'll find me. So no. So they've been lying to us for five installments. It's a Hollywood movie. Five installments. The base, the core idea can't even work. Yeah, you must watch Jurassic Park,

and you're like, there's a hole in the plot line. Fake. You get on the comment section, fake. Couldn't do this. Hey, Dr. Espen Knuduce, this has been so fascinating. Thank you so much for answering the questions. And it sounds like an awesome exhibition that kids and families all around New Zealand are going to enjoy.

Well, it's lovely talking with you and all the best. Thank you. You too. Catch that new exhibition, Sea Monsters at Auckland Museum, from July 7. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Kia ora, good morning.

Welcome along to the show. Jono and Ben with you on a Wednesday morning. Big full moon out there. Did you see that? I didn't see it. Yes. I took a video of it. It was enormous.

Looks like my head's the moon when it's a big full moon. But I spent a lot of time looking at the moon and not much time staring at the road, which I probably should have been driving in. People go crazy on a full moon, don't they? Do you? I don't think I do. Everyone loses their marbles on a full moon. They do talk about that, though.

But I don't know. It's a good excuse, isn't it? You know, if you're acting a bit strange. What was the fairy tale where they got the rhyme, the nurse ran the dish and the spoon? The fiddle? Who was jumping over the tale where they got the rhyme, the nurse wrote on the dish and the spoon. They did it all, the cat and the fiddle. Who was jumping over the moon? Was it the spoon or the cow?

Cow jumped over the moon. How does the cow get weaved into the story? I don't know. Were you thinking, I don't know who wrote that one? I don't know what they were on when they wrote it. The same person created the Tally Tubbies. Yeah, but it was a full moon so they were doing some crazy stuff. Hey, we've got a big show today.

We're joined by a paleontologist. We're going to ask him questions, put to him by kids, kids' questions to a paleontologist. And hopefully the first question is, what is a paleontologist? Yeah. How do you spell it, too?

Yeah. That's another big one. And Jason Kerrison, he was unveiled as the masked singer not but a week or so ago. And now he's going to be releasing some new music. New music. New music.

New music. So we'll get him in to talk about his music before 7 o'clock this morning. But next on the show, Jacinda Ardern. We asked her a question the other day, and then she referenced that question. We'll tell you about that in a few moments. It is the hits. We got it. Scrolling through your feed.

All right, I know you've just woken up. Get ready to chow down on a big bowl of newsily. Here's Ben Boyce with what's been happening overnight. Well, Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister, was part of an unveiling of new puppets. Now, they have the Backbencher Pub, which is just across the road from Parliament. And it's been a long tradition there to have puppets of iconic members of Parliament. And now they've just unveiled some new ones. Who's made the cut?

So new Jacinda Ardern. Before that, she was behind a DJ deck. Now she's sort of dressed like something out of, she's sort of said like half sort of Game of Thrones, any sort of look. There's also Judith Collins, David Seymour, and Chloe Swarbrick, some of the people unveiled last night.

And Jacinda Ardern was there to check out her new puppet, and she said this. I'm often asked what the most unusual things I'm asked to do as Prime Minister are or is. Sometimes I really have to stop and think about my answer. I don't think I'm going to think long about it now because unveiling a puppet in your likeness is right up there. So she said, yeah, this is often asked, what's the most unusual thing,

the weirdest thing she has to do as Prime Minister? Well, she's often asked by us. It was not but a couple of days ago that your son, Oscar, asked her this very question. What is the weirdest thing you've had to do being the Prime Minister? Oh, the weirdest thing. question. What is the weirdest thing you've had to do being the Prime Minister? Oh, the weirdest thing. Oh my gosh, the weirdest.

As an MP, I got asked to open a toilet once. I didn't do it. The offer was made. There we go. He's really leading in with the hard-hitting questions. It's obviously stuck in their mind, though, isn't it? Well, I was like, who turns really leading in with the hard-hitting questions. It's obviously stuck in their mind, though, isn't it? Yeah.

Well, I was like, who turns up to the opening of a toilet? Like, obviously Jacinda's required to be there because they've asked her as the local MP. But who's like, oh, I'm going to go down and see the ribbon cut on this public ablution block today? I just imagine a whole lot of people really busting, ready to go. Like, holding their groin, bouncing up and down. Hurry up. Open this toilet.

I've been holding on. I've just opened the photo of the Jacinda Puppet. They've really focused it on the teeth, haven't they? Well, that's what she said. They've made that a feature. Oh, is she meant to be guarding heaven there? Maybe, yeah. Is that the backstory?

Because she does look like a goddess from sort of a Thor movie or something. Right. I don't know. She thought it was maybe to do with the Game of Thrones. She was like, is this to do with the blood wedding? When everyone sort of, I don't know. She was like, she thought it was maybe to do with the Game of Thrones and she was like, is this to do with the blood wedding when everyone sort of, I don't know. Anyway. Everyone was left confused. She walked out of there. So that's it. The gastropub

opposite Parliament. I always find gastropub an interesting term. Don't you? Yes. I'm going to go to this establishment. I think, yeah, it is an unusual thing to think about. I wonder what came first, the pub or the night for the... The gastro... Maybe a pub

way back in the 1920s got a bad food rating. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Experts in semi-accurate,

half-remembered information. Vaguely known information, but maybe not correct. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. And we're going to talk more about the bubble being temporarily paused.

Between New Zealand and Sydney, right? Yeah, our boss Todd conveniently went over there on Monday to extend a holiday. Yeah. Yeah. It's a risky move going over there at the moment, isn't it? It does seem it can change at any second. I imagine it. Yeah.

Sorry, Ben, you go. No, no. It's probably going to be the case until everyone, or as many people as possible, were vaccinated, I guess. Yeah, there were many stories about people in Melbourne who just went over for a day's business and ended up getting stuck there for the duration of their latest lockdown.

Oh, of course. Listen, I'm causing some interstation beef, unintentionally as well. In the building we're at, we've got to work with a whole slew of radio stations, a stable of stations, they call them, like a stable of racehorses, finely tuned racehorses,

but across the way is Radio Hauraki and the hosts on there are Jeremy Wells and Matt Heath. Now, Matt Heath bailed me up yesterday outside the building. He said, do you drive the black car? I said, yes, I do. He said, you're taking my favorite car park every morning oh you're making a big dog play big move i've only been here for a year and i've already taken the park i'm causing car park beef he likes it and it's the same reasons i like it as well

is because you've got protect it's parking alongside a wall right so you've got protection. It's parking alongside a wall. So you've got protection on one side of the car from the wall. But the most important thing is quick exit. You pull out, you're up the ramp, you're out. Now, I'm inconveniencing the end of his day because he's like, every time I'd come and I'd get that park, he's like, I knew it was going to be a good day. And he hasn't a good day for months now. And he's pinning it on me, seeing his car park.

Now you know. What are you going to do? Well, I like the car. You can't be there today. Actually, you did. I saw your car. You parked exactly in the same spot. So he's going to see that and go, oh, thanks a lot, mate. You know, you could be the nice person about it. What's it to you? It's only moments out of your day.

Oh, it's a quick exit. Well, I like it for exactly the same reasons. If he wants it, he needs to get there earlier. Yeah, it'll become a race of who gets to work first. Yeah, Julia, you've been nodding. You like that car park as well. I love that car park, but I'm not, like, super protective over it. Like, I'm quite happy.

It's more just the closeness to the lifts. So I'll take any of those parks close to the lift. If I can't get one of those, I'm a little bit annoyed. It's the most confusing car park to get in and out of, though. It's a maze. I don't want to bore people with a car park chat that doesn't affect them at all, but there's almost like two circles that you can navigate the car park. There's like an inner one and an outer one.

And to get to our parks, you've got to go on the outer one. But to go on a different exit, there's four entries exits. If I go on the one I don't know, I can't get to the outer exit. It reminds me of that scene in The Labyrinth with David Bowie. You get easily lost in there. And then you have to go, can I drive the arrow, say, that way? Can I drive against the arrow? No, I can't.

I drove in the other day where I couldn't fight, I had to leave and then come back in again. Did you pull out of the car? Yeah. Because I couldn't get to the... I couldn't work it out. So now I know, I go on that thing. It takes a little bit longer, but I get in. At least you're not lost.

He takes the long way round. I'm not first in. I'm not getting out. I'm not upsetting anyone from high-dagging. And that's the main thing. Because they're a far cooler station than we are, too. Maybe I don't want to upset them. No one wants my park.

It's miles away from anything. But I know how to get there and not. Yeah, anyway, it's the corporate box of car parks, and I know how to get there and not. Yeah, anyway, it's the corporate box of car parks and I'll continue to park there, Ben. Oh, yeah. Okay, so I've started in to show beef. I know. I apologise. Yeah. Well, there we go. That's some car park chat

for your early morning. So what you need to do is give us a call right now if you've got a name, which could be anyone at all. Unless you're Prince through that period in his career where he was just a symbol, then he probably couldn't participate, but he probably can't participate anyway, just given the fact that he's no longer with us, that's sad. But if you want to give us a call right now, 0800 THE HATS,

and you tell us your name, and then we quickly Google some other famous people with that same name, and then we try and give you clues to see if you can guess who the famous people with the same name is. Yeah, you've got 30 seconds to guess as many as you can. So, for example, if your name was Tom. Okay, pretend your name's Tom, Ben. Okay, hi, I'm Tom.

Hey, Tom, how are you? Love the show. Thanks, mate. What do you do, Tom? I love bringing up the competitions. Oh, yeah? Pretending I'm Tom. Prize pig, are you?

Is that even your real name, Tom? No, it's not. You told me to pretend I was Tom. Why are you getting upset with me? Don't pull back the curtain, Tom. I didn't tell you to pretend to be anyone. Yeah. This is radio.

Do you have any clues to hear some things? Do you want to move the game along, do you, Tom? Yeah, I do. But you're the listener. That's not your role. Oh, OK. OK, start the timer. Mission Impossible.

Oh, Tom Cruise. Yeah, well done. Comedian. He impersonates Paula Bennett. Oh, Tom Cruise. Yeah, well done. Comedian. He impersonates Paula Bennett. Oh, Tom Sainsbury. Well done. He's pretty good at throwing the shot put. Tom Walsh. Well done. Hey, thanks for your time, Tom. Oh, but there's still more time.

There's still more time. Forrest Gump. Tom Hanks. Yes. Thanks, Juliet. I don't have any other Toms, Tom. Well, it feels suppose there's more time. On the drum, there's a... Oh, Tom Larkins, she had. Yes. There you go.

Well done. That was a long 30 seconds, Tom. It was. Yeah, so that's how it works. Now, can I just also pull back the curtain even further? Producer Humphrey, Bee Humps, our lovely producer Humps, check him him out is starting to lose faith in this game really said it never works

said it never works so that's on your shoulders I'll tell you he's saying what's the name game who put the name game in there

yesterday yeah it's not working it doesn't work he was also in the brainstorming meeting for the chase he told Bradley Walsh

it'll never take off so it's your responsibility to make the name game work otherwise it's gassed. We've got Hell Pizza up for grabs. Give us a call right now if you want to win Hell Pizza and help us prove producer B-Hump's wrong.

Give us a call. This is the name game where you give us a call and 0800 the hits and you can win a Hell Pizza. We find out your name and then we quickly Google other famous people with that same name and see if you can guess how many how many you can guess with some clues that we shabbily give you on the spot yeah it's a race against time so we'll give you a little quick example ben you'd be the radio host

this time i'll be the listener ring ring hello this is the hits how you doing good thanks what's your name bill cosby okay now move on no move Okay, now move on. No, move on. No one enjoys that. No one enjoys that. It makes it awkward and weird. Do I still get to play the game? No, no. And then I'd hang up on you and you wouldn't get to play. Beep, beep, beep. No one needs that in the morning. Jennifer, you're on from Christchurch. How are you? How are you? Good to have you on, Jimbo. What do you do? What's that? What do you do, mate? I work in retail. Oh, yeah?

Retail. I was listening to another radio show the other day. They did a really good topic, actually. What, if you work in retail, is the most annoying thing we do as customers? Oh, there's a long list. Yeah. The top one was opening clothes and not folding them properly and putting them back, which I'm a huge criminal for.

I just chuck them back in a pile. I won't lie, Jennifer, so I apologise to you in the retail industry. But Ben's going to give you clues. See how many famous Jennifers you can think of, all right? All right, I'll give it my best shot. All right, here we go. Okay, start the timer. She was Jenny from The Block.

Now she's with Ben Affleck. Oh, my gosh. This is a shaky start. She was with A-Rod. Oh, she did? Yeah, she used to be with Ben Affleck before the other Jenny. Also called Jennifer. No.

Okay, she's Rachel of Friends. Real name. Oh, Aniston. Yeah, Jennifer Aniston. She was in The Hunger Games. She was the main character, Candice. Rachel of Friends. Real name. Oh, Aniston. Yeah, Jennifer Aniston. She was in The Hunger Games. She was the main character, Candice. Oh, um, Lauren. Yes, we'll give you that one. Jennifer Lawrence, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Lopez.

I think we got three. We got three. We scraped them with three there. Basically, if you've dated Ben Affleck, you could have featured in that. Jen's kind of his thing, right? When you show yourself like that. So if your name's not Jen, you've got no hope with Affleck. Well done.

You've got three there, Jennifer. We'll go to Chris in Timaru to see how he goes. Moreno, Chris, how are you? Yeah, copy that. Copy that, Chris. Copy that. 10-4. All right, let's start the clock.

How many famous Chris's you can knock off in 30 seconds? He's got very good muscles. Hot. Plays Thor. Chris Hemsworth. Well done. He got good at running away from dinosaurs in Jurassic World.

Pass. The bassist. The bassist from 660. Pass. Comedian. Rocks at a quarry. Well done. The boring, bland singer from Coldplay. Pass. God, I've got no more Chris's.

Oh, head of Shoreland Street Chris Warner Oh just It was three each What a game We're going to have to give Hal Beetson for both of you I think Oh legend Well done

Now can we get producer B. Hampson nod of approval Or a No Oh the name game's not coming back It's gone Written off the schedule We didn't save it. I thought it was good, but anyway, it's off.

Okay, well, it was the last time we ever played the name game. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Hefts. Jason Kerrison, you'll know him from Op Shop. He's so many smash hats, Op Shop. And he also won the Masked Singer just a week or two ago on TV, Jason Kerrison. And joins us in the studio right now. It's been a long time no see, Jason.

Hey, it's been ages. It has been ages. Yeah, real good. I feel like I've just seen you, though. Like, you're on, obviously, the Masked Singer. Well, not you until the end of the Masked Singer. Yeah, yeah. How did you feel when you saw me?

Did you know it was me? I think, yeah, it was one of the few I felt like I knew who it was. But for you, inside that Tuatara costume, how did it feel for you when they were guessing all these sort of other people that clearly weren't you? Yeah, yeah, when they started guessing that I was the entire 2015 All Blacks team, I thought they started, you know, yeah. To be honest, I felt like Darby had checked out of his guesses

halfway through the season. And he started going, you know what, I felt like Darby had checked out of his guesses halfway through the season. He started going, you know what, I don't actually care. He even said that one episode. He's like, I've said all names I know in New Zealand. I don't know, are you Tom from my primary school? It was a really entertaining show though. It was so good to watch. I really enjoyed watching it with the kids.

How was it for you? Because I understand they asked you a couple of times to be on it. Yeah, random, eh? It was so good to watch. I really enjoyed watching it with the kids. How was it for you? Because I understand they asked you a couple of times to be on it. Yeah, they did actually. Yeah, and the first time I was, I had no idea what it was. I don't know if you guys had ever heard of it. And I went and had a wee look, just a real cursory look and went, oh no, no, I'm good, eh? I'm good, I've got to dress up like a strawberry and try and sing

through that thing. I was like, a kiwifruit, so yeah, no, I'm good. And then they said, oh, please reconsider. I went and checked it out properly. Well, not properly that time. I was like, oh, damn, I don't want to be that guy. So I'm good. I'm a definite no. So that's two no's. That's two no's.

And then they said, hey, look, take the weekend. Take the weekend. We hear you. We hear you, but just take the weekend and get back to us. And so, like I did, because I thought, look, I could see the ratings were massive. And what I noticed from, I think it was Joss Stone who had been there. That's the other thing.

I saw these amazing artists, like actual incredible artists, man. You know, you've got Patti LaBelle in there. You've got John Legend in there. Joss Stone, as I just mentioned. And some amazing people. I was like, well, where the hell am I? I'm, you know, Jason from Invercargill. Just going to get amongst it, man.

And so, obviously, giving you the weekend to think about it. That really helps. Well negotiated TV3. It's right. Good to see it's led on to other things, like your eight-year solo album, which you got out. Yeah, cool. Called The Timing, which is great timing off the back of the mask.

It wasn't even meant to be called The Timing for The Timing. It just ended up being Right Timing, so that's cool. Yeah. You wouldn't have recorded and toured music in a while. Yeah, I haven't really. I backed out of it for a while. We got ripped off by a record company and I was just like, man, I'm done. I'm out. Is that why you stopped?

Yep. They decided they were going to keep half a mil of ours and we went, well, what's the point? So, yeah, just bailed on it. That was it. So that would be disheartening. That was something that you really loved doing. It feels disheartening even thinking about it. I haven't actually told anyone this.

I'm telling you guys. I forgot we were on air, but here we go. And yeah, so for me, I was completely disenfranchised by the industry. And I was like, this is not why I got into this. I didn't get into it to make money necessarily, but I got into it to be able to do something I'm passionate about and be able to keep doing it. But not to be ripped off. Not to be ripped off, bro. Especially

when we thought they were our mates and then they're suddenly not. So you just go, oh man, this is supposed to happen to other people and it's supposed to happen to everyone else. And you do all your reading to make sure your contract's not on everything to make sure it's all squeaky clean. Everyone adheres to the rules of combat.

But then they decide otherwise for whatever reason so that's the breaks and I've just decided man bugger it I'm just going to get into music because I love it again and so that then led you on a path to becoming a qualified builder now and you've built your own house and you're living on what 360 acres in Northland

yeah that's right and as I said before walking around after the alpacas that we've got and just shoveling their business for the day. How many alpacas are you running? Well, we asked for three. We got 12. How's that work?

I don't know. Yeah, yeah. I don't know, man. Good question. That's what I asked the guy when he turned up. You're like, I'm sure it's all spread out. My maths isn't great, but yeah. They're the spitty ones.

They can get spitty, can't they? Oh, mate, not only do they spit, because the great thing about alpacas, if you are shoveling, I don't know why I'm focusing on this, but they start kicking it at you. Oh, really? Yeah, bro. What else do you guys want me to do?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I start throwing it at them. And so it becomes a bit of a war of attrition, like who can take it out the longest. So, yeah, but I'm lucky, man. I am lucky. And you're right, it has put me on a path where I ended up north and doing stuff I really love

and I'm up there with my partner who I adore and we're in a beautiful part of the planet. And now I can come back to music because I love it and adore that as well for different reasons. Do you find the older you get, the better you become at making music? I hope so. Although I listen back to some of those

Op Shop records, man, and they were good. I actually didn't buy into the hype when it was going. I was like, oh yeah, I suppose we'll get it the next time we'll get it. But you know, it pops up on the radio or whatever and you're like, damn, actually, we had some chops. Oh, awesome, mate.

I'm glad to see things are going well. It's always good to catch up with you, and congratulations on all the success. And you too, man. Good to see you guys. And how are your mornings going? A year of mornings, eh? A year of mornings, yes, it's more.

There's no happier moment than 3.40 in the morning, Jason. Ring a ding-ding, man. Good to see you, boys. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand! If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on The Hits. Now, on Friday, we're taking it back to when The Hits first started.

In the early 90s, we're going to have a 90s show on Friday in a couple of days' time, which will be a lot of fun. And you remember the TV show The Nanny? It ran for about 6 years. It was one of the biggest TV sitcoms around. Kate theme tune. Her boyfriend kicked her out in one of those crushing

scenes. Such a jazzy intro. So she was in she fell out on her fanny, The Nanny, and then she sort of was looking after the kids of a wealthy whanau. Mr Sheffield! Yeah, that's right. And then Cecilia was Mr Sheffield's love interest. But you could always tell

something was bubbling away between the nanny and Mr Sheffield. I think they got together in the end, right at the end, I think. Spoiler alert if you haven't caught up on the nanny. Oh, how dare you ruin the nanny. From the 90s. But guess what? The nanny, Fran Drescher, has heard about our 90s show on Friday,

and she sent us a message. Listen, this is Fran Drescher. Hi, John, I'm Dan. It's me, Fran Drescher. I hear you're having a fabulous 90s party. Am I invited? I hope you guys have the best time and just enjoy

yourself. And if you need anyone to take care of the kids, do you need a nanny? Be well, take care. Much love to you both. That's lovely. Beautiful message there from Fred. Was she doing that in the shower? It just sounded like she

had running water in the bath. I haven't seen the video footage. B-Hubs, you retrieved that. What was the location there?

Maybe she was doing it while the shower was just heating up. You're running the shower to heat up. I better knock this message off. You've got about 30

to 60 seconds, don't you, for the warm-up? Yeah. I'll get this quick message out and the water will be at a good temperature and I'll be able to get

to the shower. Anyway, it's lovely to have her. That was awesome. She'll be tuning in on the iHeartRadio app on Friday, the nanny. Yeah. And I'll be a bit dubious about letting her look after the kids. She's not qualified. She's an actor.

Yeah. That's very cool. We've got some Spy Entertainment news coming up. Spy. The what's up. Spy.co.nz. There's nothing Producer Juliet won't do to get the story. Apart from going to get the actual story.

She just prefers to copy and paste it from the internet here, spy. So Lorde was the latest guest to join Stephen Colbert on his show. And all about her album Soul of Power. And this... It's going to be August 20. Yes, very exciting. Very exciting. And the cover image is what a lot of people kind of started talking about when it was first revealed.

And Stephen Colbert also talked about the cover image. And ordinarily I would hold up a picture of the album, but CBS's standards and practices will not let me hold up the album because ironically for an album called Solar Power, there's a photo on it of, well, where the sun don't shine. And... I can't even acknowledge the dad joke that you just made, Steven. So the album cover, my friend just took it.

It was just me jumping over a friend on a beach. For those who don't know, it is my butt kind of from below, and I'm in a bikini, so it's like a little hardcore, but it was so joyful to me. It felt like innocent and playful and a little bit like feral and, I don't know, sexy. And there you go, that's the back story, the backside story to the shot. I've got a lot of those sort of photos of Ben

if anyone's interested on my phone too. I'll start a website. I found it interesting as well, she was on the project last night on TV3 as well and she's talking about how they filmed the video for Solar Power on the beach and she's got more videos. They actually filmed other videos for other songs.

On that same beach? On the same beach. Oh, cool. It's almost like a little series. Oh, yes. I did actually see on her website she has posted another image of her in like a different outfit because she was in the yellow outfit for her Solar Power video.

Different outfit, slightly different set, but yeah, it does look like the same beach, kind of teasing probably a new song. Oh, wonderful for production as well. Just having one location. Really budget conscious, Lord. Totally. A smart play. You get permission to film there, then you knock off a few more videos.

A few more videos. Jeez, I tell you what, the bottom line would be looking fantastic on that spreadsheet for Lord. Absolutely. I wonder if they knocked him off all in a day, too. You booked the crew for a day, you're done. It's a long day, but we get it done. She might even have a song about when the solar power runs out and it gets dark at night time, and she might have seen on night time at the beach.

Oh, now that would be a great play, because then it looks like a completely different setting. Yeah. Oh, well, time will tell. Time will tell how much they milked out of this beach. And Avril Lavigne is the latest star to join TikTok, and her very first video on the platform is perfect. It is iconic.

It is amazing. So cool, eh? It is so good. So obviously her biggest single was Sk8er Boi. And the video is of her singing in that sort of, how would you describe that look, kind of that rock star sort of look? Emo. Yeah, emo.

And so she had, it was a shot of her singing along with that song and then it cuts to Tony Hawk, the professional skateboarder, and he's skateboarding up and down a ramp and it's just amazing location he's wearing the same tie so yeah i was well done again same location save money on smart you know hey i know a great place where we can film this yeah tony hawk's gonna be there maybe he was there anyway just skating oh hey do you want to be in the video yeah it't pay him a talent fee. Have you seen Avril Lavigne now? I think I have. She's quite beautiful. That was Avril Lavigne on her TikTok

so I did see that. Oh you have seen the video. She's looking marvellous. Well done Avril. Sometimes people age down. We just had Jason Kerris in it. I said somehow you miraculously look younger than when I last saw you. Yeah it looks awesome. That's so true. Andulously look younger than when I last saw you. Yeah, that was awesome.

That's so true. And some people I find they get better looking with age. It's a bit like George Clooney. Like, he's better looking now, I reckon, than when he was when he was a bit younger. Yeah. But. It's the Jono Pryor effect. I like to call it.

It's the what? More dashing with age. Oh, yes. That's what they're saying out there. I've seen the forums. Oh, they do. And that is spy. I've been writing that in the forums

And that's spy for more you can head to the hits.co.nz This is Jono and Ben On the Hits Jono good morning it's just gone 7 o'clock You're with Jono and Ben on the hits as you just heard before In the news there's a bit of a Covid-19 update and we've got Rachel Jackson-Lees In with us right now

I love it when we get Rachel Jackson-Lees in Because you know it's too serious for us to handle. So we just palm it off to Rachel. Yeah. Good morning, guys. Well, the quarantine-free travel is on hold with New South Wales. The reason why this is a little bit scary is they've got the Delta variant, which is from India,

and that's highly infectious. So that's the one that people are worried about at the moment. There's 21 cases in Sydney, which might not sound a lot when you think of how many they've got in Fiji but it's the Delta variant. So there's a couple of flights here that have got warnings. So one is Qantas flight QF163 that left Sydney on Friday night and came into Wellington. The other is an Air New Zealand flight NZ247 which left Wellington for Sydney on Monday.

Everyone on both of those flights, there's a group of people here and now there's a group of people in Sydney, they have to get tested and isolate no matter what their result is. So even if you get a negative, they still want you to go into isolation. Yeah, no matter the result, after two weeks of isolation. Does it have a delayed effect, the Delta? I'm guessing, I mean, I'm not an expert on that, but I know in the past some people have had a negative test result and then three days later have had a positive. So I guess they're just being extra cautious

given how highly infectious this one is. And has there been someone with it in New Zealand? There is concern for an Australian traveller who came to Wellington over the weekend. Who went back home and they got tested positive when they were back in Australia. So they came over here for the weekend, had a good time in Wellington. They were here between Saturday morning and Monday morning, just for a little long weekend, as you do with the travel bubble.

Do we know they had a good time? Have we done the drilling down on them? I'm assuming. Wellington's a good place. I always have a good time when I go to Wellington. Wasn't that their thing? Yeah. You could assume he had a good time.

I always like going to Wellington. Anyway, he got back to Australia and tested positive. So there is some concern there for that person. So they have four close contacts in Wellington. Those people are all in isolation. Hey, there you go. Well, we should put all that information up on the hits.co.nz. We'll get that all up there and you can have a look.

Thank you very much, Ray. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. We're on the hunt for a babysitter this weekend in the prior household. And, you know, you go through your tight family members. You rattle through them. Sorry, we've got this on.

Okay, next person, next person. Then you start to look to colleagues. Everyone's very busy. So we've gone through the list of people that you're not obligated to pay. They're there just purely thanks to genetics, or they can't say no because it would be rude. So now we're into the babysitting territory. And I was talking to a friend of ours.

He pays, this astounded me, he pays his babysitter $10 for the entire night's babysitting. The entire night? $10. What? I was 17 years old. I was like, that is low-balling. That's half the minimum wage.

Not even hourly is it, right? No. Isn't the entire night work? $10? What is this, 1972? Slipping into some questionable labour practices there. But I guess when you're 17 at the negotiating table you're not backing yourself are you oh so you probably just

but his reasoning and here's his argument you'll probably agree with this ben given your uh you know i like saving some money but it's a penny yeah yeah um he says well i'm just paid they get 10 bucks for sitting on my couch watching Netflix. Well, yeah, that's true. They do. That's his argument. But they are responsible for your children, and they're not doing it in their house.

I mean, you're not getting some top quality babysitting at $10 for the entire night, are you? You've got to be babysitting me. $10. Jeez. Okay. So what do you, what I want to throw out there, because no one ever knows what to pay a babysitter. No, that's the thing.

I'd really like to know as well what the standard is. You look like you would have sat on some babies, Juliet. I did. I did. I can't remember what I was paid, but I remember always not being sure whether I was the person that said the rate at what I should be paid or whether it was the adults or

the parents you don't want to do that in that situation no you don't want to say what it is in case you go too high or too low really did you send your agent in yes I did yeah yeah you know you're gonna do that if you're not if you're not sure mum and dad I gather your mum and dad probably settle on the rate my mum and dad with the people did they well not not always because not always would my parents be involved in like they might not even know the person that i'm babysitting for it might be just like a complete random so i'll turn up and they were like so how much do you want to get paid and i'm like oh god i don't know how much do you think i should get paid oh so you threw it back in there

yeah right so but then if they came back and said $10 for the night, what would you have said? I'd probably be like, okay. That's the thing. As a teenager, you're not going to disagree. Yeah, I know. You're going to be too polite. It takes a ballsy teenager to go, oh. You're going to do a shabby job of looking after the kids. I know. Maybe $10, well, I'll be taking some stuff from your house on the way.

So, 0800 to the hits. This is what I want to chuck out there. I want to find New Zealand's highest paid babysitter, not to be confused with New Zealand's highest babys to find new zealand's highest paid babysitter not to be confused with new zealand's highest babysitter and new zealand's lowest paid babysitter now is this currently or can this be from this could be from previous babysitting news okay so that you were like hey when i was in my teenage years i was getting paid 30 an hour for example and you go wow were you we would go wow yeah and then all you could go i was uh you know 22 years old getting

paid uh two dollars fifty okay and we go oh wow okay highest and lowest babysitters and what do And then all you could go, I was 22 years old getting paid $2.50. And then we'd go, oh, wow. Highest and lowest babysitters, what do you pay? And what did you get paid? We'd love to hear from you this morning. You're going to get asked for music if you want some sort of game show snazzy music. I thought I just, well, I should have asked for it. But then I realised as I started doing the music, I hadn't asked for it. So that was option B.

Not a good one. Not a good one. We're after New Zealand's highest and lowest paid babysitter, as Ben said. Trudy, what were you on per hour when you were babysitting? I was getting paid $40 an hour sometimes. $40 an hour? That is good. So how many, let's say you're doing

a five hour gig, $40, $80, $120, $180, $2 an hour. That is good. So how many, let's say you're doing a five-hour gig, $40, $80, $120, $180, $220 for a night's babysitting. Not bad. And that's provided. How's the maths? No, not good. But anyway. I said it with confidence.

How was the maths on that, Trudy? I like how you jumped ahead. You're like, $40. I was like, oh, he's gone. He's lost it there. And he kept going. Juliet's just shaking his head. You're like, no. I lost gone. He's lost it there. Julian's just shaking his head. I lost it after 80. 40, 80.

You're like, what? What did you give up by 60? Or something. I don't know. You lost it. Oh, live radio maths. It's never, throughout my entire career, never worked out. But so, Trudy, were they a lovely family?

Were they a rich family? Or this was just the rate they had decided to pay you? No, I think it's just because their kids were little carers. Ah, yeah. A lot of labour required. Yes. They really wouldn't go to bed. They wouldn't have a shower. It was horrible. So you worked hard. Pardon? You worked hard for that $40

an hour then. Once they went to bed, it was sweet and I'd just eat all their snacks. Hey, thank you very much, Trudy. That's really good. Someone's texted in here 4487. I once got given

$250 for two hours babysitting. What? I think the dad came home after a long dinner and I was obviously feeling a bit generous and then the next morning

she and her mum made her go and take half of it back. We did that as well with the friends of ours. We were staying at a place, and the kid had just, you know, he got his licence, and he dropped us off and picked us up. And my mate went to give him, like, a couple of, what he thought were two fives that he had or whatever it was at the end of the night,

just as a little, and it was two fifties, and he realised it later. He was like, oh, oh. And then the next day, he's like, can I go ask for it back? I'm like so he realised it was delayed and he was like oh oh so the next day he's like can I go ask for it back I'm like oh it's a bit of a bad

bit of a bad look so the kid was babysitting and dropping no it was a babysitting he was just like dropping oh just to drop it yeah

so jeez you've got to work it hard and you'll pick us up it was just a little bonus too the kid was like wow what a great bonus but you never want to act

like it's a great bonus when you get it just secretly inside you going, yes. But it was. It was $100. Huge win. Alexandra, we'll get you on from Wellington. How are you?

I'm good, thanks. Lovely to have you on. Highest or lowest paid babysitter, what did you get? I got paid $20 an hour for 5pm to 11pm, and then they drove me home afterwards. Oh, what a service. Wonderful service. So again, 5pm to 11pm, you're getting $20,000, $40,000, $60,000, you know, $100,000, $1,000, what a service. Wonderful service. So again, 5 to 11, you're getting $20, $40, $60, you know,

$101, $222. Exactly, exactly. Yeah, a lot of money. A lot of money. And a ride home as well. I know, it was great. Which means one of them isn't drinking as well, so they're putting their night aside. I know, it was perfect. Well, maybe they were, and it was an interesting drive home.

Thank you Alexandra Appreciate it. We'll head to New Plymouth and get Cathy on the air Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast Cathy Good morning Highest and lowest paid babysitter, what are you getting? Nothing I get paid in love

And which is the worst payment of them all? No it's not, it's the best It's the worst Cathy You demand cash, Cathy. I'm presuming you're a family. This is for your family, right? Yeah, I'm Nana. Oh, that's nice. I'll tell you what's nice,

$20 an hour. Love doesn't pay the rent, does it? No, but grandbaby kisses and cuddles do. Yeah, no, that is lovely. Stop trying to warm the cockles of my cold heart, Cathy. No, you've warmed mine. You've warmed mine.

Mine are lukewarm. Good on you. Oh, there we go. We've found New Zealand's highest and lowest paid. You can't get any lower than love. Yeah, lower than love. We've got a paleontologist joining us on the phone very shortly. We've got some of the best and most awkward kids' questions

to put towards them. It is the hits. So I found this really interesting. It was on 7 Sharp last night. So there's a lot of companies around the world, even Sir Richard Branson has been using this model, having four-day weeks and over there now there's a new group of Kiwis,

a group of Kiwis called Perpetual Guardian, and they're getting a petition, an international petition, to make the four-day week a bit of a worldwide reality. It's picking up quite a lot of steam. I bet it is. I bet it is picking up a bit of steam. Is it like a mechanics in Northland who does the four-day week? He says the, I've read an article,

the workload or the output is not any less. No, that's what this guy's saying who's the CEO of Perpetual Guardian. He's saying the staff are healthier, they're happier, they're more engaged as well. And he was saying it was almost like, I can't remember exactly, but he reckons the average person's only productive

for around two to three hours a day. It's kind of the average is how much of actual, you know, when you're... Which is why our radio show is only from six to nine. When you're knuckled down to actually do it. Sometimes those radio shows,

they drag on until ten and you can tell that last hour. Yeah, they're not productive. Mentally, they're not. No, they're not. You know, either knock an hour off

or knock a day off. That's what I say. That's what I've always said. Yeah, but it's really interesting. A four-day week is getting some momentum. While we're on this talk the petition talk i would also like to uh introduce the afternoon siesta as well so if we can put that too into the four day week yeah right so yeah two or three hour nap in the afternoon some people would be more

productive uh if that's if they got that sort of every day actually why don't we just do it half day so work four days but they're half. So sort of, you know, eight till midday, siesta, midday till four, dinner, four till seven. Yeah, we're going to have some productivity going on there. In fact, why doesn't government just pay for us all

to live? Five words for 5k on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. The chops are dusted. This guy. The dusty chops. What does he mean?

Five words, $5,000. That's what's up for grabs. So right now, you've got to match all five words with ours. You know how it works. It's less confusing than dusty chops, so let's get into it. Let's welcome to the show Michelle from Wainuiomata. How are you? Kia ora.

Well, thanks. Morena to Michelle. Lovely to have you on now. You want to send one of us into the soundproof booth, which actually is also, I don't know if you realise, I've just rented this out to the Navy as a deep compression chamber for the deep sea diving Navy SEALs. So you're going to send who into there today?

Ben, please. All right. Get into there today? Ben, please. All right. Get on in there, Ben, boys. See if Michelle can match five words with your five words. You know, we had a really good burst of winners a couple of weeks ago, Michelle. Yes, I'm listening. A few good wins. And now that burning desire to throw away more of Boss Todd's budget is back in our belly, okay?

Yeah. Sounds like a good... That? Yeah, I'm clicking good. That's good. I made that awkward. Sorry, that was more awkward than the dusty chops moments ago. I'm having a shocker. Let's get into it. You got five words. If they match with Ben's, you got $5,000.

The first word that comes into your head when I say cherish. Love? Yeah, that's a good one. I couldn't think of any other words. Lightning. Strike. A lot of whispering going on there. Suspicious whispering.

Who are you whispering to? I'm tossing my husband. Oh, yeah. Tossing out whispering going on there. Suspicious whispering. Who are you whispering to? I'm tossing my husband. Oh, yeah? Tossing up between lightning or strike. I mean, sorry, thunder or strike. What did your wonderful other half have to say about that one? He said strike. He did.

We'll go with strike. Okay. It's a harmonious relationship. One that agrees together wins cash together. That's what they always say. Yogurt is word number three. Yogurt? word number three. Yogurt? Mm-hmm.

Greek. Ah, yes. Greek yogurt. Always a very unsatisfying flavour, Greek yogurt, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. You never go, geez, I could go and be a pot of Greek yogurt on its own. Friend is word number four, Michelle?

Friend, did you say? Yeah. Reunion? Oh! We love it. Lesson, the fifth and final word. Lesson. Is that L-E-S-S-O-N?

That's the one. Swimming. Swimming lesson. Oh, yeah. Not bad. All right, we'll get Ben Boyce out of the work confessional booth, aka the soundproof booth. Has he not come out yet? He's out. Put your fingers

in your ears. Put your fingers in your ears. Okay, he's put his fingers in his ears. I'm making him do it now. What did you want to say? Can I change the lightning one to thunder? I'm going against my husband. Oh, okay. You're going against your husband. Okay, unplug your fingers from your ears.

Michelle just wanted to say what a nimwit you were. Oh, fair enough. I've got some sunglasses in there too, so I'm going to wear them. There's sunglasses in South Perth Booth, so these are for good luck. Yeah, he's got highlighter green sunglasses from 1997 on Michelle,

and he's got a winning attitude behind those frames. Let's get into it. I'm going to mix it up like you do with me been okay lightning first week that comes into your head when I say lightning oh I've got a couple they had a couple as well there is a couple floating around but I'm not gonna say Matt loud cuz it's always disappointing when you say them out loud later and they're like oh you should have floating around, but I'm not going to say them out loud because it's always disappointing when you say them out loud later and they're like, oh, you should have chosen that one. So I'm just going to lock in a thunder with a question mark.

Oh, did we get it? Michelle. Bolt was the other one I was thinking of, lightning bolt. Oh, well, her husband said strike, so none of the above. Well done, Michelle. You win that marital discussion. Second word was cherish. Love.

Well done. Yogurt. Pottle. He's out. What did you go, Michelle? Greek. Oh, well, your Greek yogurt's good. Yeah. Well, you know. I said the same thing. Very unsatisfying yogurt.

I mean, I love the Greek people. Wonderful. I love. I see the same thing. Very unsatisfying yogurts. I mean, I love the Greek people. Wonderful. I love a good tzatziki. Yeah, but the yogurts are missing the mark for me. But we'll go through the remaining two. Friend. Mate.

Lesson. Oh, lesson. Oh, there's so many lessons. Lesson, lesson. Driving. Oh, okay. Sorry, lesson. Driving? Ah, well, okay. Sorry, Michelle and Mysterious Husband, who we never got to find out the name of. Sorry, guys.

I'll let you down there. You've been wonderful people. No worries. Spy.co.nz I see Producer Juliet's standing over there with her potato peeler, ready to peel out the celebrities again. What's happening in Spy, Ju? So, Lorde is the latest star to join the Stephen Colbert show. And Stephen Colbert, he loves New Zealand, I think.

He had Jacinda Ardern on a couple of times. He came to New Zealand and... He came to New Zealand and they talked about it. They did a... We went to Jacinda Ardern's place and she cooked a barbecue and then he did a prank with Lorde where he said, oh, could you open these sort of... They were kind of like Pringles.

And then they had one of those little snake things that popped out. Little fake sort of rubbery ones. And they sort of talked about that prank again. So she was on their show, on his show. And of course, as Stephen Colbert lovers, he's so I feel like he's so intrigued with our country, so intrigued with our government and everything like that. He did ask her about our response with COVID-19. Do Kiwis feel superior to the rest of the world? And you should for the way you handled COVID.

I mean, I didn't handle anything. Make no mistake. But you all cooperated with each other. That says something about your civic institutions and your belief in each other. Yeah, I mean, we're lucky to have a really calm, steady government, you know, because you kind of felt like a kid. You just needed someone to say, it's going to be OK.

This is what we're going to do. And I really felt that at home. If I was in Lord's position, I would have taken all the credit for the COVID rollout. Why, thank you, Stephen. Yeah, that's why I had to delay my album, because I had been working behind the scenes with the government on ours. I didn't want it to be a public thing, but you brought it up now. And it's ironic

we're playing that now when in Wellington at the moment, there's a number of locations of interest. I know. Thanks to an Australian tourist, we're going to bring you all the latest with Rachel Jackson-Lees in the News at 8 and update you too. Just after 8 as well. Double updates. Oh, okay, good. What more did you

want? Three. I'll give you a triple. Yeah, okay. And that is a quick spy update for you. For more you can head to the hits.co.nz. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben? New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Good morning. Just got on 8 o'clock. You're with Jono and

Ben on your Wednesday morning. A lot of news around at the moment about someone who came to Wellington from Australia over the weekend has since tested positive for COVID-19. So there's a few locations of interest that will be announced later on today. Is that right, Rachel Jackson-Leese from the news department? Good morning. We've just had an update from the Director General of Health, Ashley Bloomfield, and he did indicate that he's feeling a little nervous about this one.

So this... Because it's the Delta variant. They. Because it's the Delta variant. They are assuming it's the Delta variant. They don't know that for sure, though, do they? Not yet. His positive test result only came back yesterday afternoon, and then Ashley Bloomfield got a call at 8 o'clock last night saying, hey, we had a visitor from our country, came to Wellington,

probably infectious because he tested positive yesterday, and in fact he felt sick on the flight back home on Monday. So that indicates that he's probably highly likely he was infectious while in Wellington. Ashley Bloomfield says he came over for the weekend and he quote, did the tourist thing. So they're expecting a high number of locations of interest

in the capital. They say they're in the process right now of notifying those locations. So they want to get that done first because they don't want businesses to hear on the radio uh that they're a location so they're letting them know first and then uh at some point probably this morning we'll get that list revealed and what they're saying is that if you are if you did go to one of those locations they want people to act fast and go straight into isolation well they're suggesting everyone who is on the flight back from Australia

also gets tested, whether it's positive or negative, and isolate, right? On both flights, yes. So he flew over on Qantas Flight 163 very late on Friday night, came in at midnight Saturday, and then left on Air New Zealand Flight 247 on Monday morning. So anyone on either of those flights, some will be in Aussie, some will be here, they need to go straight into isolation for 14 days, even if they get a negative test result. They're taking this really seriously because the Delta variant spreads pretty quick.

Very contagious. Well, thank you very much, Rachel Jackson-Leese. Can I just say it's really fun to say your full name, Rachel Jackson-Leese, just like some of you say Sarah Jessica Parker or Neil Patrick Harris. It's a bit of a mouthful, isn't it? Yeah, no, it's a good fun name to say in full. Over to you, Benjamin Boyce. Yeah, it's not good fun name to say in full. Over to you Benjamin Boyce Yeah it's not quite as fun to say I'm about to

live free It is the Hits Live Free travel edition it's back thanks to South Australian Tourism. Every week your chance to win a $5,000 travel voucher we'll give one of those away on Friday afternoon and also if you want to get in the chance to get a call back

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And even on a personal level, I text them all and they never call me back. We'll get Anna on from Hamilton. How are you this morning in the Tron, Anna? I'm great, thanks. How are you? Good. What do you do?

I always like to know what people do. I'm very nosy. Self-employed. Oh, yeah? Good. What do you do? I always like to know what people do. I'm very nosy. Self-employed. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Follow-up question. Doing? Oh, we own an electrical company.

Oh, very nice. Oh, lovely. It must be fun being self-employed. Oh, no, it's pretty stressful. Yeah, it must be quite stressful being self-employed. Yeah, more stressful for the husband rather than me, though. Well, listen, you could relieve some of that stress with a getaway. Wouldn't that be nice?

That would be so good. Yeah, thanks to South Australia Tourism, you can win a $5,000 travel voucher. Living free, baby. Yeah. When was the last time you went on holiday, Anna? Oh, past. I can't remember.

Oh, well, yeah, past. I can't remember. Oh, well, yeah, it sounds like you're a very deserving person to get in the draw for Friday. Thank you. All right, well, let you get back to your stressful life. All right, have a good day. Have a good day.

All right, there we go. Wonderful stuff. Another chance very shortly to get in the draw to live free, all thanks to South Australian Tourism. That is the hits. You got it, Jono and Ben. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays

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